Vibe Coding: Why 'Just Vibing' Isn’t Actually Coding
There has been an explosion of people posting they now think vibe coding is basically coding, needless to say as an engineer I now know how the artists felt.
Lately, there’s been a lot of noise about vibe coding. Scroll through tech Twitter, and you’ll see it everywhere: people claiming they’re “building apps” just by telling AI what they want. No digging through docs. No fighting with compilers. No real coding. Just vibes ✨.
The idea exploded when Andrej Karpathy called it out – describing vibe coding as int…
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